a sermon on using water to redefine relationships
but nowin today’s gospelwe encounter a Jesuswho uses water to redefine what relationships might be.
Holy Week & the Three Days
The Three Days: this is the highlight of the church year. The most ancient of our worship practices, the Triduum (meaning “three days”) is three separate gatherings on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that make up one service. Each time we meet there is a distinctly different feel and focus.
Sermon: Thursday, March 24, 2016: Maundy Thursday
Jesus is simply waiting for us in love to stop claiming “You will never wash my feet” and to simply start paying attention to this mutual love and service – these means of grace we've been offered – this new commandment to love.
The Three Days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil
The story of these three days is our story. Reborn in the waters of baptism, we are sent into the world for lives of costly service, but we are not sent alone. So we gather on these nights with those who are preparing to receive the gift of baptism to remember a supper spent with friends, testimony offered the face of empire, and the God of salvation whose story is as old as creation.